Chinese scammers have found a way to add storage on a hard drive to make it look that it has more storage space than in reality. When copying a large file to disk it gives no error message, but it writes the memory over again and again.
The scam is presented by a Russian developer, who heard the case of from a friend which works near to the Chinese border in a repair center. When the fake Samsung HDD was opened, it appeared that it didn’t had a 500GB HDD inside, but a 128MB flash drive. To make the device feel heavier, two bolts were used. The memory is stuck in a loop mode, which means that it keeps writing it self over. This made that only the last 128MB of a file were kept on the flash drive. Because the memory controler makes the computer think it has a larger storage space, many consumers will not quickly realize they are scammed. It is still unclear how the Chinese have achieved this scam.
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I got trapped by this scam too in my last vacation in Guangzhou early this year. Bought a 1TB Toshiba for $70, got corrupted after copy, and discover the bolts after accidentally drop and cover exposed the 2 bolts inside !!!
Is this how they own Ferraris and condominiums?
It's a lesson learned again and again...Never Never trust Chinese products.
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